Memorial sites
Memorial sites are places of remembrance, learning, and critical engagement with history. As placement sites for volunteers, they offer the opportunity to contribute to the communication of historical topics and to take responsibility for collective remembrance.
Volunteers support educational work, assist with events, research, or exhibitions, and accompany visitor groups. In doing so, they actively engage with both the past and the present, making an important contribution to the promotion of democracy and a culture of remembrance. Volunteering at a memorial site provides profound learning experiences, strengthens historical awareness, and fosters empathy, reflection, and social engagement.
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Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum
The Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum in Oranienburg commemorates the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which was a central site of Nazi terror from 1936 to 1945. Today, the memorial is an important place of remembrance, historical learning, and engagement with the Nazi past. Through exhibitions, educational programs, and guided tours, the history of the site is conveyed, contributing to historical responsibility and the promotion of democracy.
Ravensbrück Memorial
The Ravensbrück Memorial is dedicated to remembering the largest women’s concentration camp in Nazi Germany. From 1939 to 1945, more than 120,000 women, children, and also men were imprisoned there. Today, the site serves as an important center for remembrance, research, and political education. Through exhibitions, seminars, and educational programs, the history of the camp is conveyed—with the aim of keeping the memory alive and raising awareness of human rights, democracy, and responsibility in the present.
Memorial Liestikowstraße
Potsdam
The memorial sees itself as a contemporary history museum with special educational responsibilities. Its diverse activities are based on research as well as the collection and preservation of historical evidence relating to the history of the Soviet investigative prison. Through permanent and temporary exhibitions, events, and a wide-ranging educational program, the memorial provides information about the historical site and the fates of the prisoners connected to it. Its work is further complemented by a humanitarian mission: supporting and assisting former prisoners and their families.
Memorial for the Victims of the Euthanasia Murders Brandenburg an der Havel
Since 2012, the memorial site in Brandenburg an der Havel has commemorated the victims of the Nazi “euthanasia” murders at the historic location where the crimes took place. A permanent exhibition documents the murder of more than 9,000 sick and disabled people in 1940, focusing on both the historical background and the personal stories of the victims. The memorial is complemented by an open-air exhibition, an archive, a library, and educational programs. It also presents the history of remembrance after 1945, which has endured despite the destruction of many of the original buildings.